Card Patterns and The Cat's Pajamas Inspriation Challenge

I went searching for some fun challenges this week and ended up at two places, Card Patterns and The Cat's Pajamas. I recently found out that The Cat's Pajamas issues a new challenge each Tuesday and this week it is an inspiration challenge.

This first card is Card Patterns sketch #12 for this week. Their sponsor is Unity stamps so I pulled out this set I just love. The sketch really has what look like three circle kind of designs on the front, but what I like about sketches is that you are to look at them and make them your own so I used the stamps and created three points of interest on the front.

The two little stamped birds are one of the points, the Give Thanks label piece is the second and the flower is the third.

1. The birds are stamped and embossed and colored with Copic markers and accented with Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint on portion of the birds. One of the birds is added to the card with foam tape so their is dimension to them.

2. The label piece is also stamped and embossed and then the greeting is stamped over that and that is also embossed. I used Copic Markers to add a little bit of color to the border and added the same Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip to the colored border. I love the little bit of glitter that this adds while still letting the colors show through.

3. The flower was really white, I sprayed it with Memories Mist by Stewart Superior. This makes such a quick and easy way to add color.
Recently I was able to play with some The Cat's Pajamas stamps if you remember that post and I wanted to pull those out again. I was over taking a look at their blog and web site and I discovered that they issue a challenge each Tues. This week the team member, Toni, picked out a great set of summer themed glasses for inspiration and I picked out the great summer colors of the prints on the glasses for my card. I just love how these Prism papers have the exact perfect shades to go with this wonderful We R Memory Keepers paper that has the exact colors in the stripes.

This cute kitty cat was simply stamped with the black ink and embossed with the Detail Clear embossing powder. I just love how intense that makes the image and really brings it to life. I gave a little shadow around the image with a Copic Marker and the blender pen and then added the Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip to the wings and the halo. Again, I just love the amount of glitter you get with this kind of paint. Just makes that little cutie look so angelic.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

GIVE THANKS FOR BLESSING… card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned papers – Providence/Cottage Street/Scenic Route Paper and Dazzling Dots/29th Street Market/My Mind’s Eye
Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars
Set of stamps – Unity
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic Markers
Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Flower – Petaloo
Memories Mist spray – Stewart Superior

SWEETIE PIE card
Materials:
Cardstock – Prism
Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Black Stamp pad – Versafine
Detail Clear embossing powder – Stamps n Stuff
Circle punch – Papershapers/EK Success
Scallop oval punch - Marvy
Oval punch - McGill
Mini brads – Making Memories
Ribbon
Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Copic Markersc